The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-12-24
Maryland Affairs.

The output of the Cumberland coal regior
/ for the year 1887 reached 5000, 600 tons, the
| greatest product since the mines were opened
in 1912.
| /. Davis Clark, promident citizen of Tai
! bot county, and member-elect of the House o.
| Delegates is seriously i'll with malignant can
Ger of the jaw.
The number of deaths reported in Balti
more last seek was l41, being IS less than
| during the corresponding week of last year
The number of births reported was 154.
First Lieutenant S. Il. Gibson, of the ma
ripe eorps, and brother of Congressman Glib
son, of Maryland, is found incapacitated for
active service, and will be placed on the re-
tired list. ~ tssi5i t3t
General Samuel w. Smith died in Balti-
more last Friday night, aged So years. He
was a son of Robert Smith, who was Secretary
Of State and ofthe Treasury during Jefferson S
administration.
Governor-elect jackson has expressed a
desire that his Inauguration on the 11th OF
January should be as quiet and transformations
as possible, and in Difference to his wishes
the military feature of previous inaugnrations
will be omitted this time.
At the general election in Calvert county
there was tie between Bowen, Democrat,
and Duke, Republican, for County Commits
sioner. A special election was held last week
TO settle the matter, and Duke was elected by
eleven majority. This gives the Republicans
two of the three Commissioners.
Mrs. Kate Barnhart, of Clear Spring, Wash
iugton county, left her four. months-old infant
and FIVE year old child alone in her house
Monday afternoon. The bed clothing. in the
cradle containing the younger child took fire
from the stove, as is supposed, and burned
the infant so badly that it died shortly alter
wards.
George B. Parker, an old and we'll known
resident of Frostburg, died suddenly there
Monday evening, aged about 20 years. He
was sitting in blacksmith s shop talking with
a workman and had Just expressed the belief
that he wouldn't live very long, when he fell
ever, wastaken home and died in haitian hour.
He was a blacksmith by trade, but was for
many years constable.
The store of Thomas W. Baker, situated at
Green Branch, and that of Nathaniel Baker
at Parkertown, Wicomico county, were both
destroyed by fire Monday night. Both were
liquor stores, and were situated within half
mile OF each other. The fires are supposed
to have been the work of an incendiary
One of the Messrs. Baker says he is sure
both stores were burned by the people eppos
ed to the sale of whisky. Several stores have
been burned by incendiaries in the neighbor-
hood during the last three years.
Salisbury since its disastrous fire of over a
year ago has been making rapid strides as a
busy and progressive town. 1t now has the
electric light in twenty stores. two hotels, four
churches and twenty private houses, and one
hundred electric lights on the streets. The
new stores compare favorably with many of
the best stores in the large cities, and are by
far the best east ofthe Chesapeake. A theatre
is fast nearing completion capable of seating
four hundred people, and a town hall, ready
for occupancy, will seat 500 people.
c. l.. Harmony, ofShippensburg, Pa, wens
to Hagerstown several weeks ago, hired a
team from livery stable, and went over into
Virginia with it. At Harrisonburg he sold
the team, and several days later was arrested
at Charlottesville and taken to Hagerstown
and lodged in Jail. On Friday morning of
last week it was found the young man had
tried to commit suicide. He was unconscious
from poison taken, and after being restored
gashed his arm with an old razor. He said
he had determined to kill himself, because he
could not endure the thought of the disgrace
he had brought upon his family.
Rev. George w. Israel, well known Meth
odst minister, of Clarksburg, Montgomery
county, disappeared on Saturday evening last
He left the Montgomery House, Rockville.
presumably for Boyd's Station, late in the
afternoon during the snow storm, and has not
been seen since. Since the death of his wife
and son, several months ago, his mind has
been affected, and he has developed an incli-
nation for rowing about. As he is IS years
old his friends are anxious about him, fearing
that he may have wandered into the country
and became lost in the Snow. He has since
returned but was found to be insane and has
been placed in hospital.
The ease of Walter L. Kilton, indicted for
felonious assault upon Miss Henrietta S.
Powell, July 4, 1887, at Locust Point. was
nolle pressed ON Monday by States Attorney
Chas. G. Kerr. In the paper filled in the
case the States attorney confesses that he will
not further prosecute the case and says:
..This case was carefully tried before jury,
Awho could not agree and were discharged.
The evidence for the State never could secure
a conviction, and do not think the prisoner
should be tried again" Kilton was released
from JAIL where he has been confined since
July 5, and left on the Ericsson Line steamer
for Philadelphia, thence to his home in Cher
ryville, Maine. Miss Powell is at her home
in Matthews county, Virginia.
Abont week ago young man of rather
prepossessing appearance drove up to the
store of Mr.. Robert l.. Ewing, at Savage, in
the sixth district of Howard county, and, rep
resenting himself as the recent purchaser of a
farm in that neighborhood, proceeded to give
list of articles he needed to furnish the
dwelling. After selecting quite number he
produced check for $40 more than the price
to be paid for the articles. This Mr.. Ewing
cashed without hesitation. Some time after
the man had left Mr.. Ewing was startled with
the news that he had been the victim of a
followed to Laurel, where it was learned that
a person answering the description given by
Mr.. Ewing had hired q team at that place,
but had returned and departed on one Of the
Baltimore and Ohio trains. He was so well
posted as to the country and people of the
vicinity that Mr.. Ewing was completely de-
ceived